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Oh, what a tangled Web: Writer deceives magazine | |
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| Time: 13:42 EST/18:42 GMT | News Source: Seattle Times | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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When Microsoft's online magazine, Slate, admitted last week that it had been tricked by a contributor using a manufactured identity, the incident highlighted the unique difficulty in sorting truth from fiction in the age of the Internet. At its inception, the Internet was heralded as a breakthrough medium whose vast potential to spread knowledge would provide a cure-all for human blights ranging from war to famine to authoritarianism. But with online deception increasingly common, the medium is quickly becoming associated as much with fraud and disinformation as it was previously with utopian visions | ||
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